The fear of changing the status quo... Fear makes us stick to the status quo… The same weight, the same job, the same relationship status. It stops us from taking action that could actually change things for us for the better. The way to counter the fear is to become very specific about the action and break
Doing the hard task first. The hard task is hard because it is made up of multiple easy tasks. The key here is to identify the first microtask and get done with that. Then the next, then the next. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with
Showing up consistently. The biggest challenge in showing up consistently is the expectation of the outcome. If we don’t show up, we are comfortable with the fact that there will be no positive outcome. But if we showed up, then we feel bad if we do not get an outcome. This obsession
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Don't lunge for the ball. Stop reacting to outcomes and exceptions. Seth Godin talks about learning how to juggle in his book The Practice. Keep practising the throws. If the throws are consistent, the catching will take care of itself. More often than not, Resistance uses our tendency to make an exception to throw us
hygiene and motivation factors absence of hygiene factors oxygen, water, food, money, sex… These are all hygiene factors and they all have their time factor. How many seconds or minutes or days you can survive without them? Oxygen is the absolute extreme and hence it can help us understand the dynamics of the hygiene
Systems. We need systems. For money, for health, for work, for fun. Without systems, we let the last minute mind run everything. And there are a lot of tools out there to manipulate the last minute mind. Today, more than ever, we need to create systems that can help us become
Getting specific about what you want. It’s not going to be easy, because we have been trained against it for years. But this is one of the most important steps towards a better life. Because when we get specific about what we want, we can identify specific actions that can take us there. And by
Carrying things around. Many times we carry stuff around just because we are used to carrying it. Letting it go means that we have to take a decision, we have to change the status quo. But if we want to climb a mountain, it makes sense to pack your backpack mindfully. Let go
Ambition Do we understand ambition? The beauty of it. Ambition is not about fitting in, not about getting the next promotion. Ambition is about generosity. About making change. About doing it again, and again. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your
Priority. There are certain things that you can’t take your eyes off. Money and health are two of those. The moment you take your eyes off them, they start creating problems. It’s important to prioritise money and health much before they become an emergency. — If you liked reading this,
Petty distractions When we leave our seat, when we open another tab, when we browse through our phone, we create space for petty distractions. They seem harmless at first. We feel we are in control. We can always go back to the work. We can sit back down. We will go back
Being a professional Everything has a choice. A choice of professional or amateur. There is a dress code for the professional. A time of starting work and a time for ending work. When the work hours are done, the professional does not think about the work. She moves on. — If you liked reading
getting back up. If you are an athlete, you will fall. If you are a dancer, you will fall. If you are a writer, you will fall. If you are creative, you will fall. If you are human, you will fall. It’s not about not falling, it’s about getting back up.
Surrendering to the teacher That’s the key to growth.. When we surrender to the teacher, we take the power away from the force of self-sabotage within us. We start trusting a higher power. A coach who is invested in us, in our career, in our body, in her field if experience. If you
Effortless is more effective. There are two ways to get anything done. One involves struggle and the other involves courage. It takes courage to take the effortless path. It takes courage to not be busy. When we are busy, we are not necessarily productive. Tiring yourself out every day is not a good way
more… You can always be more… More generous… More kind… More relaxed… More you… The thing with infinity is that there is always more.
Fear and choice When we are afraid, we start believing that we don’t have a choice. That creates more helplessness and more fear. You always have a choice. A choice of how you react to your circumstances. Choose.
Creating roads to creativity. It is important to create the roads. If there are no roads, there would be no development. Your podcast channel, your medium page, your WordPress website, these are channels for you to express yourself. Once you have a road, you can drive a Mercedes through it or a truck, whatever
Writing Hour I started this habit this Wednesday. And it has changed the trajectory of my mind. Every day, I put a timer for 60 minutes and sit down to write. I keep writing in a semi-public forum. This has helped me give shape to ideas and resolve complexities and ambiguities in
Don’t talk about your idea. Ship it. If you have an idea in your mind, don’t talk about it. Write it down. Find what you need to do to make it live. Unless you are thinking about a cement factory, in most cases, making the idea live won’t cost much. Create a Notion or Strikingly
One by one There are times when everything seems to be falling apart. Nothing is in its place. We don’t even know where to start. The key in this situation is to activate the finishing mindset. The finishing mindset is the antidote to the perfectionist mindset. When you activate the finishing mindset,
Jump without a parachute. Our lives go down the tube looking for the parachute, for the backup, the worst case scenario. We obsess so much over the worst case scenario that it becomes our only reality. The way to get out of our day to day misery is to take the plunge. To not
One hour. 4 times a day. We keep hearing about 12-hour and 16-hour work-days. Days full of meetings and distractions. Of shallow work or no work. But if we can find an hour of zero distraction. An hour of single-tasking. We can get a significant amount of work done. Creating 4 such hours each day can
Finding your way back. It happens. One day we are a professional and then we are not. Call it a slippery slope or a rabbit hole, but one exception leads to another and soon our ‘amateur’ habits become a norm. The thing with slippery slope is that it’s easier to slide down but
